cl. 3. P. dídeṣṭi (Imper. dídeṣṭu, [RV.]; cl. 6. diśáti, °te [later the only Pres. stem]; pf. didéśa, didiśé; fut. dekṣyati, °te [deṣṭā, [Siddh.]]; aor. adikṣat, [ŚBr.] &c.; adikṣi, ádiṣṭa, [RV.]; inf. deṣṭum, [MBh.] etc.; díśe, [RV.]) to point out, show, exhibit, [RV. viii, 82, 15]; to produce, bring forward (as a witness in a court of justice), [Mn. viii]; to promote, effect, accomplish, [Kir., i, 18]; to assign, grant, bestow upon (dat. [RV. ii, 41, 17]; [AV. xiv, 2, 13]; gen. [MBh. iii, 14278]; [xiii, 1843]; loc. [R. i, 2, 28]); to pay (tribute), [Hariv. 16061]; to order, command, bid (inf.), [Kir. v, 28] : Pass. diśyate, [MBh.] &c.: Caus. deśayati, °te; aor. adīdiśat, to show, point out, assign, [MBh.]; [R.]; to direct, order, command, [ib.]; teach, communicate, tell, inform, confess, [Buddh.] : Desid. didikṣati, °te, to wish to show &c.: Intens. dédiṣṭe, 3. pl. °śate, (p. f. pl. °śatīs) to show, exhibit, manifest, [RV.]; to order, command, [ib.] : Pass. dediśyate, to show or approve one's self, [AV.]; [VS.]
[cf. Z. dis; Gk. δείκνυμι; Lat. dīco, in-dĭcare &c.; Goth. teihan; O. E. téon (fr. tíhan).]
f. quarter or region pointed at, direction, cardinal point, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c. (four in number, viz. prācī, east; dakṣiṇā, south; pratīcī, west; and udīcī, north, [AV. xv, 2, 1]; [ĀśvGṛ. iv, 8] &c.; Sometimes a 5th, dhruvā, [AV. iii, 9, 15]; [ŚBr. ix, 4, 3, 10]; and a 6th, ūrdhvā, [AV. iii, 27, 1]; [ŚBr. xiv, 6, 11, 5]; and a 7th, vy-adhvā, [AV. iv, 40, l]; [ŚBr. ix, 5, 2, 8]; but oftener 8 are given i.e. the 4 cardinal and the 4 intermediate quarters, S.E., S.W., N.W., and N.E., [Mn. i, 13] [cf. upa-]; and even a 9th, and 10th, tiryak or adhas and ūrdhvam, [ŚBr. vi, 2, 2, 34]; [MBh. i, 729]; diśām pati [cf. dik-pati below] = Soma, [RV. ix, 113, 2], or = Rudra, [VS. xvi, 17])
quarter, region, direction, place, part (pl., rarely sg. the whole world, e.g. diśi diśi, in all directions, everywhere, [Bhartṛ. i, 86]; digbhyas, from every quarter, [BhP. i, 15, 8] ; diśo diśas, hither and thither, [Pañc. ii, 116/117]; diśo'valokya, looking into the quarter of the sky i.e. into the air, [Ratn. iv, 4/5] díśo 'ntāt, from the extremities of the world, [ib.], Introd. 6)
country, esp. foreign country, abroad (cf. dig-āgata and -lābha, below)
space (beside kāla), [Kap. ii, 12]
the numeral 10 (cf. above), [Śrutab.]; [Sūryas.]
a hint, reference, instance, example, [Suśr.]; [Sāh.], Sch.; precept, order, manner, [RV.]
[cf. δίκη O. H. G. zeiga (see also diśā)];
mark of a bite, [L.]
N. of a river, [MBh. vi, 327.]
a vulgar form for dṛś, to see, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 1], Vārtt. 13, [Pat.]